Guys like Lapierre should be prime candidates to feel the squeeze in the cap crunch - if he gets $3m per from some team out there his agent should be using that as his calling card (like Player Agent Mike Gillis with that ridonk contract he got for Bobby Holik).

So we have Tom Gilbert being bought out by Minnesota, Filip Kuba getting a not-compliance buy out from Florida, Nathan Gerbe also getting a not-compliance buy out in Buffalo, Carlo Coliaiacovo getting a compliance buy out in Detroit.. Chicago is using their buyouts on Olesz and Montador, and of course the guys we already know about (Vinny, Briere, Bryz, Ballard, Komisarek, Kaberle)..

I'd love to believe he's going to be motivated and can have a comeback 25-goal season and stay healthy.... but given his performance last year there's not a helluva lot of reason to think it will happen. He did have some chemistry with Kassian but he doesn't complement Kesler at all.

We really need to upgrade our top-six scoring and if Burrows is staying then the Boothster is the odd man out.

Trading Edler or Bieksa is an option as well, but only if we replace them with another high-end defenceman.... we would be so thin on the back end if we replace them with a scrub.

Rumsfeld wrote:The Canucks should be looking at using their second CBO on Booth.

I'd love to believe he's going to be motivated and can have a comeback 25-goal season and stay healthy.... but given his performance last year there's not a helluva lot of reason to think it will happen. He did have some chemistry with Kassian but he doesn't complement Kesler at all.

We really need to upgrade our top-six scoring and if Burrows is staying then the Boothster is the odd man out.

Trading Edler or Bieksa is an option as well, but only if we replace them with another high-end defenceman.... we would be so thin on the back end if we replace them with a scrub.

Next year they can. This year they can't because he is still on LTIR. Now they could use a regular buy out once the season starts but the buy out would count against the cap. But they still would gain around 3 million in cap and would keep on compliance buy out for next year if they need it.

Rumsfeld wrote:The Canucks should be looking at using their second CBO on Booth.

I'd love to believe he's going to be motivated and can have a comeback 25-goal season and stay healthy.... but given his performance last year there's not a helluva lot of reason to think it will happen. He did have some chemistry with Kassian but he doesn't complement Kesler at all.

We really need to upgrade our top-six scoring and if Burrows is staying then the Boothster is the odd man out.

Trading Edler or Bieksa is an option as well, but only if we replace them with another high-end defenceman.... we would be so thin on the back end if we replace them with a scrub.

Next year they can. This year they can't because he is still on LTIR. Now they could use a regular buy out once the season starts but the buy out would count against the cap. But they still would gain around 3 million in cap and would keep on compliance buy out for next year if they need it.

Jesus, he's still on LTIR?

They should keep him on it for the first half of the season and sign a UFA then...

Rumsfeld wrote:
I'd love to believe he's going to be motivated and can have a comeback 25-goal season and stay healthy.... but given his performance last year there's not a helluva lot of reason to think it will happen. He did have some chemistry with Kassian but he doesn't complement Kesler at all.

iirc the Booth - Kesler - Higgins line was playing really well together, but AV never seemed to want to leave that line as is, always trying to keep Higgins on the 3rd line, or Booth/RK got injured, if that line can stay together and be healthy, Booth should have a monster season. *hope

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